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Winter 2012 Technical Event Sessions for everybody

It has bee a long few weeks traveling to Dublin, Las Vegas, Slovenia, Germany and Sweden to give lots of presentations. Six Weeks and five countries and the expenses are piling up on my desk.

I was presenting a core set of topics like POWER7+ announcement summary, VIOS Shared Storage Pools (SSP3), Workload Partitions (WPAR) and Versioned WPARs to run AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3, quick introduction to PowerSC (security tools), a Techie "what you need to know about" Systems Director for AIX, and Quick Dips in to Active Memory Deduplication (AMD), Active Systems Optimizer (was ASO now called DSO), the three and a half Performance Advisor tools to recommend quick improvements for VIOS, LPAR and Java and a challenge: Do you have a valid reason to have not switched on the POWER and AIX advanced features? Or are you just a Luddite?

I was thinking that there is no point in hiding these presentations. Of course, just the slides below will not include get my "sparkling personality" nor all the jokes that I tell (that might be a lucky escape)! Here are the presentations for you to download from Sweden (the country only effects the first slide):

New tools are the Trusted Surveyor (phase 1 of lots more to come) and Real-Time security alerts - don't wait for the next audit - get informed of a security change in less than a second so you can tell the guy off :-)

We expect a Redbook on PowerSC very soon - it has all the missing documentation you need to get started

I have 1 hour sessions on each of these but this gives you a quick look

Active Memory Deduplication this feature is part of AMS, which has been out for years. If you don't over commit you can gently free up many GB's of memory and allocate it to new virtual machines or add RAM to important running ones with no fear of performance sapping paging.

Active System Optimizer renamed to Dynamic Systems Optimizer (DPO) just switch it on and it improved performance for large multi-core, multi-chip VMs in ways that humans can't. Now automatic use of 16MB pages (no more pre-allocating).

A quick reference to the Performance Advisors. Download them from DeveloperWorks, run the collector, get the .xml to a browser and get excellent Advice from the easy to read report. It found a few thing on my VIOS's - it was a shock!

Then a quick look at Game Changing Technology and POWER7, AIX, PowerVM and related stuff. IBM adds advanced features to save you time, add flexibility and save you money - are you missing loads of good tricks